We're flying to Ohio to visit my folks this weekend, which means another exciting aircraft adventure for me and The Missus.
And there will be no Song this time, much to our chagrin. We're actually bemoaning the lack of Song like we have never bemoaned before. Song rocks the casbah, which we've rambled on about at length after past flights.
Since we're not social with strangers, interaction is a large portion of travel stress. We're not folks who strike up conversations with the people around us, unfortunate though that is.
The whole 'sitting in a cramped chair for hours' theme also grates.
I'm still waiting for the day when we'll sleep in little coffin-like booths during a flight, as seen in The Fifth Element.
Until then, how about Mike's Travel Pods? If you traveled often, you would own one, and if you traveled rarely, you could rent.
Let's say we own one - A Travel Pod would essentially be an air-conditioned cargo carrier with a very comfortable interior. A bed-like sitting/sleeping surface with nominal essentials: first aid supplies, emergency water, food, air, and parachute.
The fun add-ons would only be limited by how much bling you could afford to have installed in your Travel Pod. DVD Player, video game consoles, PCs, fridge, mini bar, the list is endless.
It's time for a trip: You would call Go Go Travel Podz and they would show up at your house, pick up your Travel Pod with you (perhaps napping?) inside. They take your Pod to the airport. You don't mess with traffic, you don't deal with people and their attitudes.
Your baggage to be checked waits in a mini pod of its own, stowed in the nether regions of the main pod. Robot grabbers process your Travel Pod, grabbing your checked baggage and routing it to your plane.
Your Travel Pod is scanned for security purposes and once cleared is loaded onto the aircraft by other robot handlers - no standing in line. You're watching a DVD and IMing your mother about the weather in Topeka.
Once you arrive at your destination city, you can be delivered to your hotel while still in your Pod, or the airport can store it, clean it and restock the minibar for you during your visit.
There's no reason that Travel Pods should be limited to airplanes. The idea would also work for trains or even cargo trucks.
Can someone get to work on this concept and have it fully implemented by Friday? Yes please, thank you.
And there will be no Song this time, much to our chagrin. We're actually bemoaning the lack of Song like we have never bemoaned before. Song rocks the casbah, which we've rambled on about at length after past flights.
Since we're not social with strangers, interaction is a large portion of travel stress. We're not folks who strike up conversations with the people around us, unfortunate though that is.
The whole 'sitting in a cramped chair for hours' theme also grates.
I'm still waiting for the day when we'll sleep in little coffin-like booths during a flight, as seen in The Fifth Element.
Until then, how about Mike's Travel Pods? If you traveled often, you would own one, and if you traveled rarely, you could rent.
Let's say we own one - A Travel Pod would essentially be an air-conditioned cargo carrier with a very comfortable interior. A bed-like sitting/sleeping surface with nominal essentials: first aid supplies, emergency water, food, air, and parachute.
The fun add-ons would only be limited by how much bling you could afford to have installed in your Travel Pod. DVD Player, video game consoles, PCs, fridge, mini bar, the list is endless.
It's time for a trip: You would call Go Go Travel Podz and they would show up at your house, pick up your Travel Pod with you (perhaps napping?) inside. They take your Pod to the airport. You don't mess with traffic, you don't deal with people and their attitudes.
Your baggage to be checked waits in a mini pod of its own, stowed in the nether regions of the main pod. Robot grabbers process your Travel Pod, grabbing your checked baggage and routing it to your plane.
Your Travel Pod is scanned for security purposes and once cleared is loaded onto the aircraft by other robot handlers - no standing in line. You're watching a DVD and IMing your mother about the weather in Topeka.
Once you arrive at your destination city, you can be delivered to your hotel while still in your Pod, or the airport can store it, clean it and restock the minibar for you during your visit.
There's no reason that Travel Pods should be limited to airplanes. The idea would also work for trains or even cargo trucks.
Can someone get to work on this concept and have it fully implemented by Friday? Yes please, thank you.
I love the idea!
ReplyDeleteI'd say there was too much infrastructure required, but then - people said that about the internet.
"Millions of people would need computers. In their homes. Never gonna happen."
Ha!
I was just going to help people with their computer problems tomorrow....but I guess I can work on this instead.
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere that Howard Hughes (I may have completely the wrong guy, I read this years and years ago), would only travel in one way.
ReplyDeleteHe'd have an assistant shoot him up with a major league sedative to knock him out. Then they would take him from his bed, load him onto his private plane, take him off the plane, take him to his hotel room....where he would wake up in his hotel room bed, with no memory of the trip.
Sounds like a great way to travel to me! Go to sleep at home...wake up at your destination.
(Oh, and sorry to be spamming everyone's comment section, but Sunny and I got the new comp today...we're back baby!)
So clearly this idea doesn't freak you out. Not even a little bit? The whole pod thing is not a lot like being SHIPPED AROUND IN A COFFIN WHEN YOU'RE NOT ACTUALLY DEAD YET!!!
ReplyDeleteMy skin is crawling just thinking about it.
But it's an air-conditioned coffin with a DVD player!
ReplyDeleteWhat's not to like?
I'm with her - it's a control thing. A private plane however, sounds good.
ReplyDeleteFedEx or UPS?
ReplyDeleteHmn, I didn't make it very clear that you'd be able to sit up in the pod, they're not coffin-sized... My fault.
ReplyDeleteUPS, definitely. Fed Ex has been pissing me off lately.